military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (09/02/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Monday, 2 September, 1940 Today's bombings are directed mainly against airfields, with heavy damage at Detling and Eastchurch; a bomb dump explodes at the latter. Small night raids hit Birmingham, Liverpool, and Cardiff, and the Thames Estuary is mined by air. German troops are reportedly poised to intervene in the case of resistance to the cession of Transylvania, and Berlin has demanded an explanation for anti-German demonstrations in Bucharest. The USSR has requested a clarification of the terms of Germany's guarantee for military protectorship of Rumania. President Roosevelt calls on Americans to "prepare in a thousand ways" to defend the United States. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@att.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "After the small European nations have been beaten to their knees by the Nazis, Fascists, and Communists, I predict that Russia will endeavor to implant its poisonous doctrines in all of Europe and in portions of Asia." - Francis J. Allen, in a letter to the New York Times